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...bear outfit and parading him across stage on all fours would today surely elicit laughter at what is intended as a serious and even terrifying moment. Kahn takes the best approach by stylizing the animal, somewhat along the lines of the horses currently to be seen on Broadway in Shaffer's Equus. The bear is undisguisedly a person on two feet wearing a golden bear's head. Since the bear devours Antigonus offstage, that's one problem no director need tackle...
...their parents had been persuaded by nuns to turn them over to an orphanage. The children, who survived the C-5A crash near Saigon that killed 200 persons early this month, arrived in San Francisco and were destined to be separated and sent to three different European countries. Susan Shaffer, a volunteer in the Presidio's immigration room, found that most children being processed were accompanied by only the spottiest documentation...
...back. Yet this season began with hit after hit. Playwright Neil Simon credits the British invasion with supplying the spark. "I think there are better plays here because of what London sent us the first half of the season. It got us going." Sure enough, no sooner had Peter Shaffer's Equus and the Royal Shakespeare Company's Sherlock Holmes settled in as enduring successes than Americans hit back with All Over Town and what has turned out to be the season's hottest ticket, Bernard Slade's exercise in extra-conjugal domesticity, Same Time, Next...
...confinement at Maryland's Fort Holabird, John Dean got a telephone call from his attorney, Charles Shaffer. "Are you sitting down?" Shaffer asked. "No," said Dean. "Sit down." Dean did. Said Shaffer: "You're free...
...only thing Equus lacks is a sense of what it is like to be mad. Firth shows us energetically enough what it looks like to be mad, but Shaffer doesn't give him a chance to tell what he feels. The boy's passion may be more intense than anything Dysart has ever known, but such a passion, attractive from the outside, may be a burden to those who have to live with it, a source of more pain than exaltation. Maybe there are some kinds of creativity that are not self-destructive and cruel. Shaffer's play, with...